Lots of Questions

   Again I am going to praise open training. This Saturday is no different. Started doing my thing (workin on my beta weapon form), got some advice from fellow students on the "look" on certain moves, either applied or adapted, moved on. Excellent, making progress. Took a bit of a break after almost one hour of this (time flies when your swingin weapons!), took a peek around to see what everyone else was up to. Cool, Kung Fu everywhere. I observed a few things that opened up some questions about how I would do the same move, neat, questions I didn't know I had, one of the many benefits of open training. 

   One of the questions asked by Todai Voght about a certain move in Lao Gar stopped my brain and forced it to ponder. I knew the answer but her way had merit and value, plus it really worked for her. So was I wrong? Ahh intent, you poke your head in at the best of times. I hope I didn't add confusion to her question instead of answers but such is Kung Fu. Two different ways of achieving the same result, two different intents but with similar results. So home I went to try both ways until my thoughts are clearer on this, and I still find value in both ways depending on which intent I use, awesome. 

   The move, incase you wanted to know, was in part two when you are in your horse stance with the right hand on your right hip and the left hand cradled in your palm, are you stepping in to the next stance (right leg steps out to the right to a bow) or are you "kicking (bad word but you get it)" out your left leg and pivoting your right to a bow stance? This is just a sprinkle of the discussion we had. I tried it her way, she tried it my way, we each explained our intent (mostly), and so on. So there you go, try both, figure out the difference.

   So this was one of a few questions I found just floating around, waiting to be asked, waiting to be discovered, hidden in plain site. 

   I love open training. 

P/up - 2377

S/up - 2360

Spar - 20

1609 km - 93.62km

Aok -  125

Hand form - 23

Weapon form - got weapon 5 days ago, making form (25 reps of imagination)

 Mastery - 1